Irritated by the way in which some gamers continue to prioritize style over substance, Mark Butler argues that great gameplay will always count more than great graphics.
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Resident Evil 5 launched 15 years ago today - and it continues to stand as a stepping stone from the good to the bad.
One of my favourites because of the co-op. Then Resi 6 arrived and the series nosedived further.
I enjoyed the game co-oping with a friend I know the game in solo the AI can be an idiot but RE5 is way better then RE6. I played RE6 with a friend if it wasn't cheap when I got I would have avoided RE6.
5 was excellent, still play Mercs with my brother.
I would love a fully remastered RE:5, with some added, reworked content. The DLC for 5 was also excellent.
6 was awful.
I never understood why the game was misunderstood. It was a fantastic game at launch and is still fun today to play. It’s as action packed as Resident Evil 4 was, yet that’s regarded a masterpiece 🤷♂️
it was "misunderstood" because they introduced co-op into the franchise at a time when people loved to have fake rage about co-op. like, you could play the game as a solo experience, but people chose to have their bandwagon rage because it was cool at the time lol
What the hell are you talking about? Fake Rage? Bandwagon? Come on.
You can play it solo but you are forced to carry around a shitty AI partner you have to micro manage. It wasn't as fun solo.
Co-op sucked all the horror, tension and suspense from the game because having a partner covering you was like a safety net. Enemy trying to sneak up on you? No sweat the AI will just automatically lock on, alert you while they shoot first telling you where they are basically.
It was the start of Capcoms fall with the Resident Evil series where it basically become an over the top generic action game which betrayed it's own survival horror roots. Least RE4 had a good blend of both but Capcom just went the wrong way with RE5, especially going off what they were going to do during the RE4.5 beta phase before co-op was added.
At least the game was a ton of fun tho. If the game was bad, the outrage would’ve been justified. They simply pivoted for a couple of games. At this point it’s bad because it’s called Resident evil 5? But if was called something else it would’ve been good? Please.
like i said: fake baby rage and bandwagon hate. res4 wasn't really that scary, either, and was already taking the series into more of an action-oriented direction at the time. 5 was a good game that people fake-hated because of co-op that you didn't even have to play lol hence the fake rage and bandwagon hate. i mean, it obviously did well enough for capcom to go ahead and make 6 the way they did, right? if 5 was so bad, they would have changed what 6 was during development. the difference is that 6 was actually just bad.
people "hate" 5 because res4 was so good, and 5 was just unfortunate enough to be its successor. like i said, 4 wasn't scary, either, and relied more on tension than horror, but it was already more of an action game. if you don't wanna like 5 because it's not scary or whatever- that's fine, but it wasn't meant to be strictly a horror game anymore at that point anyways. the gameplay was a lot faster-paced than 4, so saying that the ai helping you by potentially shooting someone that was sneaking up behind you is a moot point. there were more enemies that were more aggressive, along with newer threats.
5 isn't as good as 4, but it's not a bad game by any stretch.
What? I always thought RE5 had fake controversy because it was set in South Africa and you shot a bunch of black zombies. I live in South Africa and thought the game was absolutely awesome, played the whole thing co-op with my brother.
@Foxtrot I think you're confusing the garbage Dead Space 3 with Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 was already a hyper action game and had zero fear factor other than the grotesque appearance of some enemies.
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Agreed, though this should be a given. You're right to call those people idiots, because they are. It's as simple as that. You want to see amazing CGI and graphics, go watch a movie. I play games to PLAY games lol.
Having grown up with video games since the days of PacMan & Defender in the arcade, I fully agree with this article. Even the worst looking games nowadays (say, Deadly Premonition?) are a million miles away from where it all started. If you can't get past poor graphics, well, sucks to be you.
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then play that, endless replay value, multiplayer, it has it all!
graphics are what propel the industry forward, the stagnation of current consoles is the worst thing to happen to gaming in a while.
wake up, 720p is a garbage 12 year old, relic of tech, jaggies should be a thing of the past, anti aliasing is perfected on pc, screen tearing is inexscusable, pop-in, terrible framerates.....all the things that plauge current last gen consoles are non-existant on a mid-range, 4 year old, pc.
graphics are HUGE, equal to gameplay in importance, more so in some ways as without the push for better tech, we just stay where we are.
think if the av industry just stopped at vhs
^you have good point but you don't have to be an elitist about it.
I also prefer gameplay over graphics. Longevity/playtime is also important. That is why I enjoy JRPG's because they have long playtime for SP and play RTS on PC.
If You Value Graphics Over Gameplay – You think differently then me.
That's all, everyone is entitled to like whatever he wants.